Larnaca climate by month
What the weather is like
Larnaca has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 35° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 7°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 17°.
About 345 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (72 mm, 11 wet days) and August the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in July to 25% in January.
The sea reaches about 27° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Nicosia, the capital, Larnaca is 2.7° cooler on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 35° · August
- Coldest nights
- 7° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 1% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 29 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 50 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 17° | 18° | 20° | 24° | 28° | 32° | 34° | 35° | 32° | 29° | 23° | 19° |
| Average low | 7° | 7° | 9° | 12° | 16° | 20° | 23° | 23° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 9° |
| Precipitation | 72 mm | 54 mm | 35 mm | 18 mm | 15 mm | 5 mm | 2 mm | 1 mm | 5 mm | 20 mm | 46 mm | 72 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 10.6 | 7.5 | 5.4 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 1.1 | 4 | 5.7 | 9.9 |
| Cloud cover | 25% | 23% | 22% | 19% | 11% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 11% | 20% | 25% |
| Sea temperature | 17° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 25° | 22° | 19° |
| Daylight | 10h 04 | 10h 56 | 11h 56 | 13h 03 | 13h 59 | 14h 29 | 14h 17 | 13h 30 | 12h 26 | 11h 21 | 10h 21 | 9h 50 |
| Month score | 70 | 80 | 87 | 92 | 83 | 70 | 60 | 60 | 67 | 75 | 87 | 77 |